Sangodele's Application (Amos)
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Weatherup J |
| Judgment Date | 18 December 2008 |
| Neutral Citation | [2008] NIQB 152 |
| Date | 18 December 2008 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland) |
| Year | 2008 |
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Neutral Citation No.: [2008] NIQB 152 Ref:
WEA7336
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
18.12.2008
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (JUDICIAL REVIEW)
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Sangodele’s Application [2008] NIQB 152
AN APPLICATION BY
AMOS SANGODELE FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW
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WEATHERUP J
The application.
[1] This is an application for judicial review of the decisions of the
immigration authorities of 3 August 2007 that the applicant was a person
liable to removal from the United Kingdom and of 18 September 2007 issuing
removal directions for the applicant from the United Kingdom and of 29
September 2007 affirming the earlier decisions. Ms Higgins QC and Mr
Flanagan appeared for the applicant and Mr Coll appeared for the
respondent.
The background.
[2] The applicant is a Nigerian national who arrived in the United
Kingdom on 3 June 2007 with a visitor’s visa valid for six months. It was a
condition of the applicant’s visa that he should not work in the United
Kingdom. On 3 August 2007 the applicant was arrested by an Immigration
Officer at 31 Castlereagh Road, Belfast for the offence of working in breach of
his visitor’s visa. On that date the applicant was issued with a ‘Notice to a
Person Liable to Removal’ by an Immigration Officer who was satisfied that
the applicant was a person in respect of whom removal directions may be
given in accordance with section 10 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
(administrative removal) as a person who had failed to observe a condition of
leave to enter or remain. The Notice informed the applicant that he was a
person liable to be detained under paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 2 to the
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